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Subject: Re: Feedback on Shredder 2

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 06:53:57 07/26/98

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On July 26, 1998 at 09:47:49, Moritz Berger wrote:

>Shredder is by no means a bad program, I use it quite frequently. One thing I
>forgot to mention: It comes with all 5 man endgame tablebases from Ken Thompson.
>It doesn't probe them during search but tries to deliver "best" moves from the
>tablesbases by not only probing them but selecting most difficult moves against
>the opponent.

"doesn't probe during search" was maybe misleading: It probes them at the root,
i.e. when you already have only 5 pieces left on the board, but not at 5 piece
positions it sees deeper in the search tree.



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